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This service includes meeting spaces: Forum Room 2799, Ver Steeg Faculty Lounge, Deering 208.

Zoom is available to anyone with a valid Northwestern NetID, and its use is intended for the purpose of conducting University-related activities. To get an account and begin using it immediately, visit the Zoom login page, sign in with your NetID and password, and authenticate using Duo MFA. An account is provisioned automatically upon first login.

SharePoint is an online content and document management tool available for students, faculty, and staff to create web sites and manage file libraries.

NUworkspace offers users a virtual Windows desktop service that provides access to a suite of many software applications to faculty, students, and staff, including access to software packages that may not be readily available on their desktop/laptop computers.

Northwestern has agreements with Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft Azure, to provide discounted cloud hosting options for Northwestern faculty and staff.

Northwestern offers 1Password, a secure password manager that helps you store, manage, and share passwords, passkeys, and other sensitive information.

The Northwestern Public Virtual Private Network (VPN) allows users with Northwestern NetIDs to access University network resources as if they were directly connected to the Northwestern network.Virtual Private Network (VPN) establishes a "secure tunnel" for your computer on the Northwestern network. It provides strong encryption, enables authenticated access to the Northwestern network from external and untrusted environments, and proxies your network traffic so it appears to originate from within the Northwestern network.

Your organization may have a ChemDraw/ChemOffice Subscription License, enabling you to have access to the latest version of the market-leading chemical drawing software.

NUFinancials is the centerpiece of the University’s financial management systems. It supports the accounting and budgeting functions that feed the University’s general ledger, and works with related reporting, facilities management, purchasing, sponsored research, financial forecasting, and annual budgeting systems.

iBuyNU is a web-based ordering tool integrated into NUFinancials. It provides departments and schools with a streamlined, cost effective way to order from University Preferred Vendors.

Northwestern provides three wireless networks to access the Internet. Each network is unique to University affiliation and device type.

NetID services take information from the HR or student system and create unified Northwestern credentials (NetIDs) that are then connected with information about each individual. NetIDs are then used as the primary way for people to interact with IT services. Other types of NetIDs can be created as well for specific people, organizations, or IT system purposes.

Copilot is Microsoft’s AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently.

The Northwestern Data Center is the centerpiece of hosting services for shared and specialized research clusters with IT workloads remaining on-campus. To meet the rigorous needs a dedicated team of IT professionals provide quality core data center services for a secure and reliable enterprise-grade data center combined with mission-critical facility management, 24/7 operations monitoring and support, and sustainability.

RDSS provides secure on-premise data storage for researchers.

Opportunities for members of the University to communicate events and advertisements with the campus at large is available through a Digital Signage Service using the REACH Media Network platform.

PerfectForms provides a SAAS platform for creating online forms and approval workflows. Because of its simple interface, a developer is not required for designing or implementing a workflow. It is recommended when the form and workflow do not require complex integrations or document management.

Bulk email is an important medium for facilitating communication within the Northwestern community. It provides self-service access for departments to send important information to large groups of people all at the same time.

JMP accelerates exploration and discovery, giving you new ways to visualize and understand your data and share your findings with others. Analysis is faster, especially with large data sets, and you get more options for drag-and-drop graph-building, as well as new tools for analyzing quality and reliability data, designing efficient experiments, interactively comparing models, creating customized applications, and more.

Data scientists and statisticians are available to answer questions and provide advice through short-term consultations.

WFS Timekeeping is the University's official time entry system of record.

Northwestern provides lecture capture services for University schools, departments, and business units provide users with the ability to record and archive lecture videos for live or on-demand viewing from a web browser.

GitHub provides hosting for git repositories and other services and tools for software development teams.

Qualtrics is an easy-to-use, web-based tool for creating and conducting full-featured online surveys.